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Is there a spec for Object Pascal?

I'm wondering what document I should follow, if I wanted to write a compiler for it.

UPDATE: From what I see[1], there is a proposed standard, but no finalized one.

[1]: <http://pascal-central.com/standards.html>
In the company where I work, we pay for Windows equipped machines (The Windows license is included in the sale price), but pay nothing for CentOS equipped machines. I can understand, why Red Hat wanted to stop that.
Thank you!!! I appreciate you taking the time to write this. Tough crowd but they make some valid points I can learn from.
Window System Design: If I had it to do over again in 2002 [pdf]
RDS can do up to 64K PIOPS these days. If you need more than that, I would definitely advocate for re-architecture to split things out and/or shard. We're up to 40k PIOPS in one of our larger databases and fast approaching the time to make that jump ourselves..
UK shops will get the normal regime (i.e not 1.5%). It is a UK card payer using an EU shop that this is relevant to.
It’s worth noting that u/WSBGod was a scam ran by a corrupt mod to sell investment courses, but so far DFV is legit (given the size of his initial play and the fact he’s gotten his money out I think he’s legit, anyway).
Read more science books and then you can fully explain it!

One of the best arguments that there is no God is exactly that beauty and complexity. It's only complex in a certain type of way, an evolutionary type of way.

No animal has jet boots, or fusion power, or laser beam eyes, or the billions of really useful, but impossible/really, really hard to evolve features. There's no design. There's no plan. There's only evolution baby!

You'll have to make do with some generalizations though, trying to go into the detail of every single thing is probably beyond what can be read in a single human's life time now.

Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything is pretty good start, or Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins, which is a book about how science makes nature even more beautiful by explaining it, not less.
I mostly agree, but I do think more could be done for maintainability and repair-ability.

I used to work in an automobile assembly plant, and even in the plant it is much better to build the vehicle correctly the first time than it is to repair it. On the assembly line, every thing takes one minute or less (ish, depending on line rate). The alternator is bolted to the engine in a minute [0]. The transmission is bolted to the engine in a minute. The doors go on the car in a minute. etc etc. Very few things take longer than a minute. Meanwhile, if you have to change an engine, the first time you know you will have to change it is at the end of the line, when the vehicle is completely assembled, and it takes several hours to remove and replace the engine. In fact, often times the engine is removed at the end of the line, then the vehicle is sent back down the line to meet up with a freshly assembled engine!

So yes, first time production is much, much more time efficient than repair - BUT - Repair and maintenance is a design goal just like any other design goal. Manufacturers care about it some because of warranty costs and resale value and reputation.

Consumers asking for more attention to be paid to those design goals is completely reasonable to me. Unfortunately there is no strong signal of repairability at the time of purchase; whereas there is a strong signal of cost, feature set, and initial quality; thus manufacturers concentrate on those design features (among others, like safety and other legal requirements)

0. The alternator person will also have some other tasks like starting some bolts for the next person down the line. The point is that no single step takes longer than a minute. The very few steps that do take longer than a minute are remarkable and you will see things like the line splitting into two, or the 4 of the same process cell working round robin on cars as they go down the line.
When are we not on trial? Does there ever come a time when humanity can consider itself, for all intents and purposes, safe?
You might try `wasgen` (which I maintain). Basically you pass it an object that describes your audio graph, and a frequency/duration/volume, and it creates/disposes all the audio nodes.

https://github.com/andyhall/wasgen

Making the sound program objects isn't trivial if you're unfamiliar with low-level audio, but the live demo has examples for all MIDI instruments: https://andyhall.github.io/wasgen/
you’re out of touch with the entire wsb scene. wsbgod/jarteks alt (the mod that used the sub to farm idiots into a scam/trading group) was a ruse used to hype the sub.
The State of Website Builders
Many thanks!!! It has been a long and painful journey, but also extremely rewarding.
Yes. You have to assign copyright to the FSF in order to contribute anything.

This is one reason for its demise. I've done the copyright assignment for both Autoconf and Automake. It's one reason why there are external macro archives (e.g. Autoconf Archive), when much of this functionality could be in the core projects.

Example: Why, in 2021, should you have to rely on external support to do something as trivial as enabling multithreading [ACX_PTHREAD]. It's not even portable to non-pthreads platforms. So much for portability. Contrast with CMake [find_package(Threads); use Threads::Threads].

Compared with CMake, which doesn't require copyright assignment, and anyone can contribute to. It has hundreds of contributors, tons of built-in functionality, and more third-party extensions than Autotools could ever dream of. Copyright assignment is a big part of that, but also so is upstream attitude to third-party contributions. Kitware do this very well. The Autotools maintainers not so much; partly down to their own historical bad choices which prevented change to the internals due to the potential for breaking compatibility.
I understand the efficiency of industrialization.

The problem is that the manufacturing of electronic devices has a lot of impact on our planet because of the required resources both in terms of energy and precious metals, and because of the growing pile of e-waste, and none of this is priced into our cheap gadgets.

Repairable devices means devices that live longer, which means less environmental impact, there’s nothing romantic about that.

From an environmental perspective, repair is also preferable to recycling, because reuse tends to be much less resource intensive than recycling.
Perhaps this guy isn't real, but there's plenty of guys on WSB who have been able to do it. They're the dream to achieve. I admit I'm jealous myself because I missed out on great buys like NIO, PLTR, GME.

I'm paying attention now, but I'm worried I missed the boat already.
Countdown Timer/Pomodoro (JS and CSS) [YouTube Live]
Do you have a website for this? A mailing list I could add my email to to get updates about the progress?
> In each of these cases, the researchers have followed a link on Twitter to a write-up hosted on blog.br0vvnn[.]io, and shortly thereafter, a malicious service was installed on the researcher’s system and an in-memory backdoor would begin beaconing to an actor-owned command and control server. At the time of these visits, the victim systems were running fully patched and up-to-date Windows 10 and Chrome browser versions. At this time we’re unable to confirm the mechanism of compromise, but we welcome any information others might have

Interesting. Call me naive, but couldn't someone just investigate on this right now? Like get the link, act as Chrome and debug the whole process from forwarding the link to the executable up to getting compromised?
True. Just sounded cheap calling it plastic. My mistake!
So presumably the Norwegian government will be fined for publishing everyone's tax returns then :-)
Yes, there's nothing like WordPress for tight security, is there?
Baigong Pipes
>passport checks ... between other EU countries

The passport checks have nothing to do with the EU, it's the Schengen treaty[0] that allows omitting that part. Norway is a part of the treaty, so is Iceland for example. Some EU countries still don't meet the criteria to join, e.g. Romania, Bulgaria. Ireland and the UK are/were outside (voluntarily) of the treaty as well - which is one of the weirdest parts of the Brexit with the UK actually checking its own borders more than most of the rest of the EU.

For example traveling from Poland to Norway by car (and ferry Tallinn - Helsinki) requires zero passport/id card checks. (id cards are a valid traveling document within the EU and Schengen)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area
Cost of quality labor in the US where I live is more than $100 per hour. Probably even more for specialized electronics requiring academic knowledge.

It doesn’t behoove me to care about repairing any electronic worth less than $5k probably. Any decent brand lasts so long and the ratio of probability of failure to cost to replace is so low that it’s just not worth it.

When something breaks, the decision is to spend $x to fix versus $x+$y to buy new. I’m not buying electronics to last more than 10 years, the protocols and everything are going to change anyway. I might as well buy new and get an update rather than fix old and be stuck with old tech.

High value purchases on the other hand make sense, since a few thousand dollar fix for a $30k to $50k car might be worth it compared to buying another $30k to $50k car.
I kinda feel like there ought to be some coherent effort to archive all this documentation, beyond archive.org (perhaps in collaboration with?).

Good developer docs have source code, and are often interactive (you can play with code in a sandbox). Much of that stuff is either on personal web sites and blogs (often with unknown licensing) or behind corporate paywalls.

There ought to be a place this stuff goes, and is forever archived, searchable, and usable.

I'd actually extend that beyond software too. Educational materials. Service manuals for my car or vacuum cleaner. There's lots of stuff which ought to live forever for the benefit of humanity. And perhaps software itself. I ought to be able to pull up Netscape 2.0 or Flash and run it in a sandbox.

Archive.org is designed to archive everything on the web. I'm thinking something thoughtful and deliberate where people (even paying for it) stick content into a permanent archive. If I'm running a startup, and I'd like to give you a guarantee of long-term support, I stick my support materials there, and they can outlast me.

Hmmm... That was a bit rambling and not too crisp, but perhaps someone can think of ways to make it crisp?
> CentOS is a sponsored project, we are the funding agent and we happen to also be a heavy contributor.

It would be interesting if there was a way to determine if any other open source projects have this kind of large dependency on a single company. Track GitHub accounts doing the commits which are linked to orgs perhaps?
Nice work! I work at [large Utah-based behemoth that sells a full range of connected exercise equipment] and enjoy their interactive rower models. It's always great to see people bring new stuff to market that makes rowing fun, because I've always felt that rowing is one of the best exercises. And since 'connected fitness' is growing so exponentially at the moment, it's probably okay for me to wish you good luck, because I think your product is genuinely exciting.
Or merchants will add a little more to their GBP prices.
(And Office365 actually gives you 1TB per user (so 6TB) and 60 mins of skype per user (so 360 mins), plus online, mobile, and desktop versions of office).

But somehow I have the feeling that Dropbox > Google Drive > OneDrive at syncing. Anybody can confirm?
New RISC-V hardware designs from 5G startup EdgeQ
(Disclosure: I am not in any way a security researcher)

> I am almost willing to bet $$$ that they would be fine if they had JS disabled

I would guess that's because you do and that's what you use as a proxy to feel safe about the unsafe web. All of us even slightly aware of the security problems of browsing the web have something (for myself I immediately thought, I should add those domain names to my PiHole, just to be safe), but that's the problem with asymmetry: it costs you a lot to defend against everything; it costs a determined attacker very little in a marginal cost sense to spread their efforts across threat vectors. You're pretty sure disabling JS makes things safe. Do you allow CSS? That's another vector. What about all those cool new HTML5 apis we have now? Heck, it's tough to get developers to think at all about accessibility, what are the odds the developers who have to support that under-appreciated field put in a ton of extra time to make sure the features are fuzz tested? Anyone tested what you can do with the subtitle track to an HTML5 video player?

I bought a copy of The Tangled Web a decade ago and never finished it because the whole thing was just too depressing to really come to grips with and instead I too have uBlock, a PiHole, some other Chrome extensions and a Mac as a sort of double-condom to make me feel safe without making me much safer. We are all the US military, happily stockpiling the wrong assets to fight the last war.
Hay Day Monetization: How This Farming Game Got to $1.15B in Revenue
Today we’re discussing Hay Day monetization. Find out what’s the Finnish mobile game giant Supercell doing to monetize its farming game.
My dog will grab my hand and put it on things he wants me to do “hands things” with: open a can of dog food, open the door, throw a ball, get stuff out of cracks/under things, etc. Although, most of the time he just wants pets.
Anything can die - even Debian (!!) could die or be taken over given enough changes.

But some are much more likely than others, and choosing which to base yourself on is a form a risk decision; perhaps a minor one.
President Joe Biden commits to replacing entire federal fleet with EVs
Both Sides of the Bitcoin
No mention of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law ?

I call bullshit.
Absolutely similar, but don't underestimate the friction this introduces, and the number of potential contributors you cut off by doing this.

Getting corporate sign-off for such things can take months while it wends its way through legal departments and upper management. Many people won't even bother, it's such a hassle.

Last one I did was for Apache. It took at least six months. Previously did several for GNU which were much quicker (in a different company).
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Notes and personal source code (private projects, automation scripts, dotfiles...). Not important to anyone but myself :)
Businesses aren’t your friends. Employers aren’t your family.

Be wary of either group selling them as such.
You can't just "cast" it as html and let it reflow. Email has significant whitespace and writers use it a lot.

Do you have examples of projects that have used a "better" method of communication that have achieved what GNU, Linux or any of the BSDs have achieved?
Potential for SSD data loss after extended shutdown
I mean, with respect I don’t know how you are working with an MSEE and aren’t able to pay down $50 over 10 years without a lofty lifestyle. Perhaps if you live in NYC or SV where the cost of living is absurd, but I don’t think your experience is typical.
Show HN: Don't Let Him Poo – Embedded in Blog Post
I think this is more of an issue of sustainability. I wish that there would be some system where each product that is put on the market would have to provide a sustainability analysis, and pay more/less taxes depending on this rating. This analysis could be something like "what happens to the materials after it becomes obsolete?", "how long is it going to last under normal usage?", "How biodegradable is the packaging?", etc.. This would force companies to actively look for ways to improve this rating, and hopefully lead to better practices overall.

Some products are just too difficult to repair, or just pointless to repair past a certain age as they become obsolete (like a phone). But they can be safely and cost effectively be recycled in bulk.
I use meets with Firefox; works fine.

Web assembly still has a lot of mozilla people involved; so fine as well.

PWAs kind of failed in the market because Apple can't be bothered and the desktop experience was always kind of meh; even on Chrome. Worth noting of course that they pushed hard on this while Firefox OS was still a thing for mobile.
TL;DR; neovim is garbage and the maintainers are arrogant. It’s a project that can’t die soon enough.

If you’re actually proficient with vim and you’ve tried neovim, than you know that the “shiny” is quickly overcome by the lack of core functions and system integration that makes vim a power tool to begin with.

If you want to use neovim, then you don’t understand what makes vim great in the first place. Here’s a hint: it’s not the key bindings.

And, the maintainers don’t care. They refuse to fix years-old bugs and feature requests. I believe it’s because they’ve painted themselves into a corner with their inexperience and lack of pragmatism.

Because it’s worth giving an example of its glaring mistakes, open up neovim in the terminal and “:!python” ... huh, doesn’t work ... that’s because neovim doesn’t have shell IO from processes it launches. When I googled the issue I found a feature request from 2013-ish. I can’t say anything now, because when I bumped the issue I was told that “ThIS ISn’T a cOre FeatURe, gvim diDn’T haVe THIs uNTil ...” and they closed the feature request at that. No fix, just a “f-u-very much” and the door. I had already posted a few other bug reports / feature requests, but promptly deleted them after that response. I’m done with neovim, except for recommendations that nobody use it.

Use real vim. Donate to help Uganda. https://iccf.nl/news.html
So Tesla makes a lot of changes for a facility that a tiny number of people will use once or twice a year.

Refurbishing old car batteries into a Powerwall type of device might make more sense though for a domestic use a fuel cell make more sense.
What does BR-R stands for?
How we made Typerighter, the Guardian’s style guide checker
> I’ve come to think that maybe young person can YOLO a bit against the odds somewhere in life. If something returns poorly on average, but has high payouts at the top it might just work out. Your life won’t be the average case but single sample.

This is indeed, after all, a website about founding startups.
This is pretty nice! Something interesting to note is that it seems to use Shepard tones[1] or something similar so that the scale can be played continuously while still staying in range.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
Where is the evidence that most of the volume came from wsb users? Genuinely curious because I don't know the details. Is it possible that a third party saw the situation and joined in?
You provided a long list of claims. I asked for evidence of one and an explanation for why the legal system hasn't done anything with this evidence since it has been massively litigated. The burden of proof is in you to prove your claims. You can't just say "fraud" and not provide evidence then hide behind diversity of ideas. It is damaging to the stability of the US to claim fraud. What you say has consequences. So either put up or shutbup.
How many of the CS students are non-Canadians who came for their undergrad and now moving to wherever they get the best job, or perhaps even move to California for weather?

Edit: I found the answer in the attached document [1]. About half the class immigrated to Canada. The stats for non-immigrant Canadian might be more interesting.

[1] https://uw-se-2020-class-profile.github.io/profile.pdf
UPS sells trucking unit
No screenshots, no care.
WSB didn't create it. A billionaire founder created it and retail came along for the ride. The differences in holdings, excluding the anomolous millionaires, are enormous. Attributing this to WSB is calling them more powerful than they are.
Why, are the Rocky Mountains about to collapse?

Also this is a sentimental name, chosen well imho.

> "Thinking back to early CentOS days... My cofounder was Rocky McGaugh. He is no longer with us, so as a H/T to him, who never got to see the success that CentOS came to be, I introduce to you...Rocky Linux"
Stop Treading Water: Learning to Learn
The disadvantage is very mild, and the advantage huge (modularity and ability to easily go embedded). If your dependency manager cannot express "program[+feature]", it is your dependency manager's problem.
Speech Generation in a Procedurally Generated World [video]
This is a dream that the lightning network aims to one day fulfill.
Asking for evidence to claims of fraud is "cancel culture" or shutting down diversity of ideas? That makes no sense.
,,You need to run an ecommerce store to understand its very hard to ask a customer their country first.''

Geo filter? I'm not sure what commerce store you are running, but that's usually the first thing that's happening.

Anyways you can set shipping costs however you want for each country.

These are all trivial things.
Lots of these points hit home - but why blame older people for your generation having less sex? Baby boomers didn't make casual sex illegal, nor have they bought up all the sex. Until covid, if young people wanted to have sex with each other they were perfectly free to.

Isn't it simply that masturbation and pornography have become relatively more attractive propositions than they were in the past?
Some tools call APIs from a whole bunch of ad networks. That 60 seconds is likely spent getting opt out cookies from dozens of different ad network domains.
You just have to read some of the past threads where people involved in logistics pop in, to realize that the costs are very significant indeed.

For one, it takes longer to clear packages, which increases your storage costs; and if a package is refused it cannot be sent back, it has to be stored for a very long time, again impacting profitability (you now need bigger warehouses).

Also there are additional checks, so more people involved - the relevant UK civil service has already expanded to deal with the increase in volume of bureaucracy, but actual couriers have not. That means they will be forced to hire more people, again raising costs.

That high cost of handling international custom-clearing packages is an average of actual immediate costs and predicted future costs.
What Leon Black Got for Paying Jeffrey Epstein $158M
Ah you pay them.

So this is sponsored article, just more directly advertised to all willing to pay.

And more obscured that its an ad and not an article written by at least semi independent party.

I understand that journals and magazines are dying off and they are grasping at anything to produce revenue. But this is literately jumping into grave.

When people realise you paper is just elaborate ad scheme its all over.
Sure. If you have the input materials. If you're at the point of having to build an alternator by hand rather than just taking one off a car, I'd like to know where you're getting magnet wire, the machined shaft, the various rotor and stator parts, the end-bells, and the ball bearings.